{"id":138997,"date":"2022-10-20T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/?p=138997"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:32:46","slug":"role-of-barcode-opencart-point-of-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/role-of-barcode-opencart-point-of-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of Barcode in OpenCart Point of Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using<\/span> the\u00a0Opencart Point of Sale System<\/a> a merchant can create orders for the products purchased by the customer from the physical store. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Opencart Point Of Sale System facilitates hassle-free transactions and the customer can place orders either from the physical store as well as from the online store.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is a Point of Sale System?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Let us take any grocery store\u2019s example, for instance, Walmart.\u00a0 <\/span>A customer visits a Walmart store, purchases products and proceeds to a billing counter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The cashier scans the barcodes of the products, and the details of the products instantly display on a POS machine. <\/span>The merchant then tabulates the bill and provides the same to the customer. <\/span><\/p>\n

The POS (point of sale)<\/a> has eased things for a merchant in a way that it has reduced the labour of jotting down each product along with its price on a register and tabulating it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This can be a tedious task as noting down details of each product for a long list of products is nearly a waste of time and until then the customer\u2019s queue may increase and some customers may leave due to waiting in the queue.<\/span>\"Barcode<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What are the Barcodes?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While buying any product we must have encountered parallel lines separated by spaces, printed on the product. <\/span><\/p>\n

These are machine-readable codes that the sales agent scans to retrieve the details of the product. <\/span><\/p>\n

A barcode consists of five parts- a quiet zone, a start character, data characters, a stop character and another quiet zone. <\/span><\/p>\n